#reference

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#development #emotional #fabrics #figuring #growing

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. ↗

— Basil Hume

#choices #decision #depend #divine #i

I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#being #buffy #every #felt #getting

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference. ↗

— Lorin Maazel

#amazing #because #beethoven #between #city

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#benchmark #common #discussion #evolution #fossils

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#favor #governmental #i #preferences #still

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#better #deal #existing #explore #gaming

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#am #change #due #i #i am

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke #movie-reference #rejection #simon-lewis #movies